The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-01-08
Edited 9e1us and a1otes

Among the petitions presented to the
senate last week was one signed by sixty
ministers of the Nebraska Conference in
favor of the Chinese indemnity bill.
Rev. Stopford Wentworth Brooke, the
son OF Rev. Stopford A. Brooke, the dis.
tlnguished London preacher, was or.
dained pastor of the historic "First
Church in Boston," on Wednesday. Dec.
20.
The late Henry Colt Kingsley, treas
urer OF Yale University, was in 1884 a
classmate of the late Rev. DIR. Budding
ton, OF Brooklyn. He was the tenth
treasurer of the college since it's founda-
ton.
Petitions are being extensively circu-
lated In some parts of Ohio, calling upon
the Legislature, at its coming session, to
extend the Local Option feature of the
Dow law SO that it may apply to town
ships and counties. 1t would be very
beneficial amendment.
DIR. George Smith, in the British
Quarterly, says that church members in
England do not give one shilling each
per annum for foreign missions. DR..
Dorchester estimates that in America
members of evangelical churches give,
on an average, about twice that sum.
The Decembe meeting of the Uni
versalist Club of New York was held
Dec. Ii. A large company was present.
Rev. The odore G. Williams, the successor
of Rev. DR.. Bellows, was the guest of the
evening, and made felicitous address on
" The Fellowship of Liberal Churches"
Professor Patten, of the Princeton
Theological Seminary, is temporarily fill
ing the chair of the late Dr. Archibald AL
exander Hodge in the same institution and
will undoubtedly be elected his successor.
Professor Patten, however, denies to his
friends that he either wants or seeks the
place.
DIR. Hart speaks of the faith of Tor
thodox" Congregationalists as |" a sinewy
and masculine faith. Assuredly it is
masculine T" enough, for it has not one
whit Of the element of tenderness which
God has made part and parcel of the nat
ure of woman. So observes DR.. Town.
sends newspaper.
The historian, Niebuhr, was never
more truly the philosopher than when he
said: Evil will not exist in the rulers
OF nation unless it exists also in the
mass of those whom they rule. Change of
political institutions will not eradicate
that evil until it has first been eradicated
citizen.
The Leader has this note, of special
interest to Western readers: Essays re-
liable letter from Omaha: when will
our city of $4,000 to $1,000 people, with
fifty churches, be blessed with one of our
best preachers? They go all around us
but we are still unblest with Gospel to
suit u.s. We respectfully refer to the
Board of Trustees
1t was John Macdonald who said. eff
you are in the spirit of prayer, do not be
long, because other people will not be
able to keep pace with you in such unu-
sual spirituality; and if you are not in
the spirit of prayer, do not be long. be-
cause you will be sure to weary the lis
teners." That is good rule for prayer
meeting, and it ought to be observed.
Rev. David Swing, in his discourse
last Sunday morning, said that the pur-
suit of happiness was the highest and
noblest that the human race could engage
in. The more civilized a man became
the more he sought amusement. The
pursuit of pleasure did not decline with
the mental development and civilization
of the race, and it was an absurdity to
suppose we were created to deny our
selves pleasure.
The last year began on a Friday
and ended on Friday. There are
four months of the year with five Fridays
each, and the year has fifty three Fridays
The moon changes five times on that day
and the longest and shortest days of the
year are both Fridays. II there is any
thing in the ancient superstition in re-
gard to Friday being an unlucky day
that ought to be one of the unluckiest
years on record.
"A Scotchman in London was at the
bedside of his dying wife, who had origi-
nally come from the Highlands, and had
always retained strong affection for the
land of her birth. Promise me, Angus,
she said, that yell bury me in the HE
lands; could never rest quiet down
here" "Weel," replied the prudent An
gus, I'll just see. If find that ye can
ma rest quiet here, I'll hae ye removed to
the Hollands"
Philadelphia. while it not inaptly
might have been called the "City of
is without doubt entitled to
the name of the "City of Church goers."
With its population of nearly, if not quite,
a million souls, one third of them hold
in its six hundred and thir-
ty- seven churches, this estimate includ-
ing only the adult membership of the